From:
"Clive Murray-White" <clivemw@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:41:03 +1000
Subject:
Cool fresh start (personal intro)
Hi all,
J Veneziano wrote:
Quoted text begins.If we could all concentrate sufficiently during our daydreams perhaps we
could project those photons back onto raw materials with enough force to
do the carving, welding, etc., without moving more than our eye
muscles?!
End of quote.
Maybe...but would that be as much fun?
In a way this gets right down to the basics. that weird stuff between
visualisation in the mind and what actually winds up as sculpture, I don't
think we should ever think that what we dream, visualise or think of is
anything but just that, a sort of amorphous liquid. A dream is always a
dream, an artwork illustrating a dream is always just an illustration.
People basing their art on an attempt to create what's in their mind's eye
will usually suffer badly because the art never quite gets there and simply
frustrates the maker because it attempts to concretise the fleeting. Its
pretty much a futile pursuit trying to pretend that something that is really
abstract, exists purely as an idea in the mind, is in fact real.
On the other hand setting out to make an art that causes people to dream or
conjure up all sorts of other visual images, ideas even voices, noises,
smells, times etc in the mind is well and truly in the ball park of what art
can do very well indeed. This tends to be attainable when we do exactly the
opposite to dreaming and that is noticing with the eyes wide open in real
time that a surface, mark particular kind of shape appears to have a
potential to send people/viewers off into another realm. It is then up to us
to attempt extract as much as we can out of the observation.
Of all the things that can send people off into other worlds I have a
sneaking suspicion that we stone carvers have the very best, the ability to
seduce our viewers into touching the surfaces/volumes of our work Even when
the viewer is denied the opportunity to actually touch the sculpture their
imagination take over.
regards to all Clive
Web: www.cowwarr.com
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